Los Angeles, CA – Thursday, June 16, 2011 – Vigilant Futures, a Montreal-based research and development firm that designs and implements high-performance systems for the world of electronic finance, announced today it won Red Herring’s Top 100 privately-held technology firms in North America. The... read more
Vigilant Futures won a very prestigious award last night in Hollywood, California. The company was one of 100 privately-held technology firms that made it to Red Herring's Top 100 list for 2011. Applicants submit their candidacy and Red Herring's editorial staff narrows the applicants down to... read more
The 2011 Red Herring 100 North America will be announced on June 15 in Hollywood, but in the meantime, they've short-listed their top 200 and Vigilant Futures is one of those on the prestigious list. We're very proud and honoured to make it to the top 200 and look forward to the final... read more
We're quite proud one of the Youth Fusion teams made it all the way to the semis this year. Here's a video compilation from the weekend. read more
Speechless, proud and deeply moved is how I left Youth Action Montreal’s Living Your Legacy conference. The line-up of speakers the Youth Action Montreal team presented at the event was truly amazing. It was a day of great Canadians, and some of whom were from Montreal. They had Craig... read more
In keeping with our corporate philosophy of supporting community initiatives that promote youth education, we decided to venture off slightly and sponsor an event that takes community engagement among youth to heart; the same way Vigilant Futures does. This year, Youth Action Montreal is... read more
TOMS Shoes decided April 5th would be a good day for people around the world to commemorate the fact millions of children globally do not wear shoes on a daily basis simply because they don’t have any. Poverty in developing countries doesn’t allow for shoes when food and shelter are more... read more
The day started off with the conclusion of the qualification rounds before lunch and the main event which began at 1:00. As the previous day, the team decided that with the difficulties we had with our arm (although functional and still capable of scoring at the highest level) and with the lack... read more
It's been another long day, albeit a little shorter than yesterday. It was still a good 14 hrs from the time I left this morning to the time I got back to the hotel. The qualifying rounds are largely done and will conclude tomorrow before lunch. Update on our robot: Our hook at the end of our... read more
Day one is done and it had it's ups and downs over the 11 hours we spent at the Mississauga Hershey Center. The status of the Henri-Bourassa robot: the arm is having difficulties due to a combination of design and programming issues. Autonomous mode isn't going to happen. The minibot may or... read more